iraq

Here’s a fun exercise!

Everyone open your wallet (or piggy bank, or whatever) and take out $300.

Then, go flush it down the toilet.

Repeat for everyone in your house.  We’re all in this together, remember?
Feels pretty good, doesn’t it?

That’s the latest spending bill passed by congress.  And if you think your money will be well managed (as opposed to just flushing it), I wanna come live on your planet.  This is being ”fiscally responsible” according to at least one congress-critter.

With all the focus this week legalizing discrimination against fellow Americans, it’s easy to forget the hell we have unleashed on other folks.  In fact, you might say that is exactly why we are even discussing gay marriage at this point - it certainly hasn’t been important enough to talk about for the last two years, but hey, isn’t that an election coming up?  Gotta divide the country again, quick!

Emily Dickinson wrote, “hope is a thing with feathers”. If what she wrote is true, then hope has flown far- very far- from Iraq…

From Baghdad: There’s an ethnic cleansing in progress and it’s impossible to deny. People are being killed according to their ID card. Extremists on both sides are making life impossible. Some of them work for ‘Zarqawi’, and the others work for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. We hear about Shia being killed in the ‘Sunni triangle’ and corpses of Sunnis named ‘Omar’ (a Sunni name) arriving by the dozen at the Baghdad morgue. I never thought I’d actually miss the car bombs. At least a car bomb is indiscriminate. It doesn’t seek you out because you’re Sunni or Shia.

More here.